Garment supporter and fastener



J. K. SEYMOUR.

GARMENT SUPPORTER AND FASTENER- APPLICATION FILED MAR.24, 1919.

1,346,342. Pat nt d July 13, 1920.

J 0HN K. SEYM OUR F 4 INVENTOR HIS A T T ORNEYE narrnn stage i- 'i'iiN'i" OFFICE Jenn K. snrnronn, or ELYRIA, OHIO, Assisi-non or onnrirrn TO MILO I-I. s'rnanns an!) ONE-FIFTH TO noscos w. KAUFEMAN, BOTH. or ELYBIA, OHIO.

GARMENT SUPPORTER AND FASTENER. I

Application filed March 24:, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

lie it known that 1, JOHN K. SEYMOUR, a citizen of the United States, residing at lfllyria, in the county of Lorain and State of C'hio, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Garment Supporters and Fasteners; and 1 do hereby declare ti e following to be a full, clear, and exact description oi the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertaius to make and use the same.

This invention relates to garment fasteners and supporters and is particularly adapted to garters.

in prior types of garters it is customary to have a depending inelastic hanger or supporting member under the sock and a depending elastic strip outside of the sock. There is usually a headed stud on the member underneath and a slotted clip on the member outside. Since the headed stud cannot enter through the lower part of the slot in the clip, it is necessary to pass a finger underneath the sock and hanger and stretch it up until the head passes through the enlargement in the slot. To do this, the inelastic strip is held down to the full extent and the inside hanger is buckled. Then the clip is passed over the stud and the strip pulled up until the stud passes down to the bottom of the slot. On withdrawing the fingers from beneath the sock, the sock stretches down again and it, therefore, is not maintained in tight-fitting and stretched position.

it is the object of my invention to overcome this disadvantage, and broadly speaking, my invention includes connections, such that the sock or other garment may be pulled up the full extent until all wrinkles and folds are removed, and then the strip on he outside, which is made of elastic mate- *ial, is stretched to pass over the stud. The hanger underneath the sock is made of inelastic material and, therefore, the sock is held rigidly in position and does not lower or stretch back again after the outside clip is placed in position.

A fuller understanding will be had of my invention from the following description, reference being had to the drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a view of a garter having my improvement.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1920.

Serial no. 284,539.

Big. 2 is a side View of the supporting members of the garter, shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one form of clip used in my invention. Fig. 4. 1s a modified form of garter havmg my improved supporting arrangement.

irleferring to Fig. 1, the garter consists of a band 1 adapted .to pass around a member of the body, such as the calf of the leg, and may have the usual pad port-ion 2 with the dependlng supporting member or hanger 3 adapted to pass underneath the sock or equivalent garment, shown in dotted lines. Thls member has one portion of a fastening device, of any forma headed stud 5 being shown secured to the member in any desired way. The slotted clip 6 in my improvement is fastened to an elastic strip 7, which in turn may be sewed or otherwise secured to the pad 2 or to the hanger 3.

The operation or application of the fastening device is as follows:

When the band 1 is placed in position, the sock is pulled up to su'liicient height, such as along the line A, to make a perfect fit around the ankle and remove all of the wrinkles and folds. To do this, it is not necessary to pass the finger under the strip 3. Then the sock is held in this position and the clip 6 is grasped and pulled down by stretching the elastic member 7 until the large opening 8 of the clip is over the head of the stud 5. The clip is then pushed down over the sock and stud and pulled back up until the stud is in the bottom portion 9 of the slot. The fastener is then in the wearing or normal position.

Since the hanger member 3 is inelastic, the sock is held up in the stretched position to which it was originally pulled, even after the clip 6 has been placed in position. It will, therefore, be seen that my improvement permits the more ready securing of the garter to the sock and also enables one to maintain it in stretched and close-fitting position.

.I'Vhile it is not essential to my invention, I nevertheless prefer to have an abutment device 10 on the flexible strip 7 to permit the thumb or the thumb nail to engage it, and aid in the stretching of the elastic strip. This could be made in many ways, but I have shown it as consisting of an upturned edge 10 on the back portion of clip 6. The

clip has two slits 11 and 12, to permit the V elastic member 7 to be secured thereto.

' It will be apparent that manymodifications can be made in my impr'ovementwithout departing from the spirit of the invention. It will also be apparent that my inventlon can be used withvarlous types of garters and garment supporting devices.

a In Fig. 4eI'h-ave shown another form'of" garter having an inelastic dependinghanger l3 and an elastic strip 14: adjustably secured to a band. 15 adapted to pass around the calf ofthe leg, There may. be any number of de-V pendingstrips 1.6, 17; and18. These-pairs may be secured to the band 15 in such a way that theymay beadjusted along it to position the hangers in any way desired, orthey. may

be sewed; permanently to the. band. The remaining POTlllOllOif the garter shown in Fig.

l issimilar to my improvement already-described.

is not to be'limited to any particular embodiment.

Having described my invention, what I claim is: V V r In a garter, a band adapted to pass around the leg of the wearer and comprising an elastic portion and a relatively inelastic portion, a relatively inelastic hanger and an elastic strip superposed over the said'hanger', said hanger and said strip being independently supported from the said inelastic portion, a stud on the lower portion of the inelastic hanger, and a cl-ipon the: lower portion of r the saidstrip, saidiclip vhaving a slotv with an enlargement'at the upper end, saidstrip and said hanger being of such relative lengths as to require the stretchingofonly the said elastic strip to bring the' said slot enlargement to register with the said stud,

said strip and said :h'angercomprising freely depending portions sufficiently long to permit a substantial len-gth'of" the Wearers stocking to lie flat therebetwee'n'.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 19th day of- March, 1919; V JOHN K. SEYMOUR, 

